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of these lotteries for each state. Thus, this paper's main departure from the standard subjective expected utility model … utility models and the behavior implied by the multiple priors models. …
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Contemporary approaches to decision making describe a decision problem by sets of states and outcomes, and a rich set of acts: functions from states to outcomes over which the decision maker (DM) has preferences. Real problems do not come so equipped. It is often unclear what the state and...
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empirical performance of expected utility and the alternative nonexpected utility theories. The present paper performs a similar …
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with varying mechanisms. Against the background of the Expected-Utility Theory (EU-Theory), firms are differentiated by … utility. A twofold approach is followed to analyze the theoretical model. For the empirical testing a large-scale survey about …
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In this paper we analyze a large sample of individual responses to six lottery questions. Wederive a simultaneous estimate of risk aversion ? and the time preference discount rate ? perindividual. This can be done because the consumption of a large prize is smoothed over a largertime period. It...
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Weitzman-type stochasticity. We show that, under expected power utility, the model is fragile to heavy-tailed distributional … assumptions and we derive necessary and sufficient conditions on the utility function to avoid fragility. We solve our stochastic … economy-climate model for two cases with compatible pairs of utility functions and heavy-tailed distributional assumptions. We …
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be reasonable accommodated by expected utility plus an error term. This conclusion implies that the violation rate of … expected utility should decrease if errors are excluded. The present paper presents an experiment which investigates this … be regarded as a more serious challenge of expected utility than the Allais paradox. More general, while expected utility …
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empirical performance of expected utility and the alternative nonexpected utility theories. The present paper performs a similar …Diese Arbeit erweitert frühere Umfragen über den Nutzen der Technischen Analyse um die Flow Analyse als dritte Form der …
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According to the harmonic sequence paradox (Blavatskyy 2006), an expected utility decision maker's willingness …-to-pay for a gamble whose expected payoffs evolve according to the harmonic series is finite if and only if his marginal utility … of additional income becomes zero for rather low payoff levels. Since the assumption of zero marginal utility is …
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Define the riskiness of a gamble as the reciprocal of the absolute risk aversion (ARA) of an individual with constant ARA who is indifferent between taking and not taking that gamble. We characterize this index by axioms, chief among them a “duality” axiom which, roughly speaking, asserts...
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